Saturday, January 5, 2008

I'm Not Normal

What better way to wrap up the Christmas break than by using vector calculus, the golden ratio, and trigonometry to calculate the angles on the faces of this zonohedron:

Now I just need to figure out a way to build it while maintaining its lattice-like structure. Bent wire, perhaps?

4 comments:

paquito said...

No intelligent thinking allowed off campus!

Spaulding Lab said...

ever heard of 3d printing?

http://www.alphaprototypes.com/?referrer=GooglePrototypeRelated&gclid=CJjL_q7E35ACFQlxOAodxEafXA

you could have them make it for you if you could port the info to a cad file of some type.

Grey said...

3d printing may work, but I'm hesitant to pursue it for two reasons:

1) It costs money.
2) I'd like to make the model myself.

It gives me a greater sense of accomplishment if I'm the one who builds it.

Laura said...

question.....do you look for ways to be more nerdy? just wondering.... ^_^